November 3, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:


Many of you have asked how you could help. I have a job for you!

I want you to take this very, very seriously because this story could make an enormous difference in moving us out of the "Holocaust mode" and onto more important things in this ongoing struggle for spiritual and financial liberation - globally! PLEASE help us with this one! Use your imagination!

Here is what happened, as the story has come down to me:

In the spring of 1996, someone named Sheldon L. Epstein, teaching at Northwestern University, filed a complaint with Dean Jerome B. Cohen against Dr. Arthur Butz, a tenured professor and author of "The Hoax of the 20th Century," for having used the university server for a website to ". . . publish articles claiming - among other allegations - that the Holocaust did not occur."

There was, as I recall, a minor skirmish surrounding Dr. Butz, but the University backed Dr. Butz's right to keep his website on the server on the basis of Free Speech, and nothing came of the complaint to have Dr. Butz kicked off for his politically incorrect writings.

Sheldon Epstein

". . . spent the Summer thinking about the problem and concluded that it was important to teach my students about the Holocaust because, in part, it was the Engineers (sic) who built the engines of death which made it possible for Nazis to execute their tidal wave of death and destruction. My first pedagogical objective, however, was not to speak only to the Holocaust; but, instead, to use the Holocaust as an example of horrors that can occur when engineers (and others) do not tell the truth."

Well, he meant well, but things developed otherwise. Here is what you find posted on his website:

"The reason that the course is being discontinued is I have received notice from Dean Jerome B. Cohen that my appointment as a volunteer Adjunct Instructor will be (sic) not be renewed at the end of the year. In private industry, that is called being fired.

The reason Dean Cohen fired me is that I have chosen to both speak in class and publish an assignment about the Holocaust - the premeditated genocide of Jews, Gypsies and others deemed unacceptable by Nazi's (sic) of Germany's Third Reich during World War II. I have been told that Dean Cohen considers my classroom discussion of the Holocaust inappropriate for a Design Engineering class. Apparently, he fears that if I am permitted to speak about the Holocaust to my students, then other faculty members will use it as a precedent and justification for their teaching about the Holocaust in their classes. My position is that students need to be informed about facts - even if there is a potential for propaganda."

Now there is more about this on Mr. Epstein's website, which you may peruse at your leisure. The place to look for it is http://web.ece.nwu.edu/~k9ape -re Northwestern

What is particularly interesting to me is that apparently, there was a letter written by Northwestern President Bienen on May 17, 1996 to Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Mr. Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and it does not take a rocket scientist to infer that the decision to "discourage" such a class as Mr. Epstein yearned to teach was made at SWC headquarters.

Dr. Butz himself considers this affair a tempest in a teapot, but some Revisionists would disagree because what we have here is a golden opportunity for us to make our documents and data known to wider professional circles.

I think it is in our favor that both primary parties involved in this dispute, as judged by their names, are Jewish. Perhaps even the President of Northwestern is Jewish. The charge cannot be made that we are doing this because we want to call the Holocaust Promotion Lobby on the carpet for systematic Holocaust Inflation. We're on the side of Mr. Epstein. We WANT our data known. There now exist FOUR forensic/engineering reports - the Leuchter Report being only the first - three of which say that "genocidal gassings" were TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. That claim can be checked out!

The work has already been done. Now it needs to be verified or refuted by the engineering community at large. That is what Revisionists want. We want the world to look at what we have accumulated against great odds and at great costs to life and limb and reputation and more harassment than you would ever wish to see. IF there existed such a "genocidal weapon" called "gas chamber" - why SHOULD it not be taught at universities?

I'll tell you why - as if you didn't know: because the chances are it will then be revealed to an astonished world it's a concocted story the world has swallowed now for more than fifty years. If we could settle this in the scientific community - world-wide, once and for all! - one of our major aims will then have been achieved. Revisionists want nothing more than have our data scrutinized by people in-the-know.

This is YOUR chance to help us. Take this to as many news groups as you can think of and make this controversy known. Get a discussion thread going. Ask people to take sides. Ask people to refute or verify. Appropriate groups are all the engineering news groups as well as free speech advocates, both general and academic, history and World War II groups, the German and Jewish political discussion and news groups, the mainstream media groups etc. College students. The media syndicates. You name it. Use your imagination. BUT MAKE THIS STORY KNOWN!

This is a serious assignment. We have the "First Leuchter Report" up on the Zundelsite ( http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english ) and I am presently painstakingly putting the spectacular "Rudolf Gutachten" in German up as well. I understand the "Luftl Report" is up elsewhere. I don't know about the fourth one which I believe is colloquially called the "Krakow Report." It could be that it is available at Nizkor. ( http://www.almanac.bc.ca/ )

If this story is properly disseminated world-wide, I believe with all my heart we would move on to better things than arguing something that has been settled years ago and could be put to rest tomorrow - much to our enemy's alarm.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Liberal power rests primarily on the ability of liberal academics and savants to declare a thing moral or immoral."

(Robert W. Whitacker in "A Plague on Both Your Houses")



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